HealRise
Sanctuary

In collaboration with Rootwork Herbals and the Yaad Wellness collective, we invite you to explore and take part in the HealRise Sanctuary, a space for our beloved community to enjoy, indulge, and access a variety of free healing modalities throughout the duration of the gathering. As a collective, we believe that nurturing and supporting our communities' care, minds, bodies, and spirits through the integration of our shared cultural healing practices is an essential tool for our health and body sovereignty.  

With the support and care of our team of skilled practitioners: Community Herbalist Amanda David, Astrologer Lo Waters, Licensed Acupuncturist Taganyahu Swaby, Thai Massage Therapist Lindai Loutun, and Reiki Practitioner Zien Celeste our hope is that each session can support participants' personalized healing needs.

HealRise Open Hours:

Friday August 2nd: 2:00PM - 6:30PM EST

Saturday August 3rd: 9:30AM - 5:00PM EST

Sunday August 4th: 9:30AM - 2:00PM EST

AMANDA DAVID

  • amanda is a community herbalist, a gardener, the mother of three amazing children, and the creator of Rootwork Herbals and the many initiatives that are a part of that container. She tends plants and people growing gardens, handcrafting remedies, offering consultations and teaching.

    Her approach to herbalism is based in the ways of her ancestors, building intimate relationships with the plants that grow nearby in order to bring herbal medicine and home healthcare to the people. In doing this, she sees herbalism as a means to support life and thus resist against oppressive systems, which undermine health. Above all, amanda is a lover of plants and a lover of people and is passionate about bringing them together in a down to earth, joyful and accessible way that promotes personal and planetary healing.

LINDAI LOUTUN

  • Lindai Loutun is a Reiki Master Teacher, Thai Massage Therapist and Natural Health Consultant whose goal is to help her clients address specific health challenges and improve their overall health and wellbeing.

    Lindai is passionate about providing a holistic health approach to her clients. Massage, aromatherapy, energy healing, treatments with essential oils, and nutrition/dietary counseling are part of her holistic approach. Every client's specific needs are met with an individualized solution. Lindai creates a nurturing and safe space for her clients so that healing can unfold to their utmost benefit.

LO WATERS

  • Lo Waters is an ever-evolving community herbalist, maker, and cosmic explorer with a head in the stars and hands in the soil. In 2012 a damiana tincture changed Lo's life, opening the door to both an individual and intergenerational journey for wholeness and healing. Driven by a deep curiosity about the human condition- how we make meaning of the natural world around us and how we coexist with nonhuman beings- building an intimate, reciprocal, and decolonial relationship with plants, land, and the cosmos is central to their being. In remembrance of ancestral practices of care, they are a continuous student of herbalism, astrology, dreamwork, and land stewardship.

TAGANYAHU SWABY

  • Taganyahu Swaby practices Eastern Medicine and is a licensed acupuncturist born in Kingston, Jamaica. He has trained in the internal martial arts for fifteen years and applies the principles of qi in his healing arts practice at Yaad Wellness, which he founded in Catskill, NY. Tagan has held teaching and practitioner positions at institutions in New York and abroad, among them the Brooklyn Zen Center, the Lineage Project, MINKA Brooklyn, Lefferts Community Acupuncture, the New Earth Mystery School, and Bard College. Tagan is also a Professor of Capoeira Angola, an Afro-Brazilian martial art and dance that has enriched his life for decades through song, instrument playing, movement, and connection to community, ancestors, and spirit.

ZIEN CELESTE

  • Usui Reiki II | Certified GWG End of Life Doula | Intuitive Tarot Reader

    Zien-Celeste (they/she/we/Sister) is a Louisiana-born poet, dancer, land-tender, and community cook certified in Usui Reiki II and End of Life Transitional Support. They have companioned queer bodies, pregnant bodies, bodies of color, bodies moving through trauma, and more.

    At Yaad Wellness Zien-Celeste offers a combination of Usui Reiki energy healing and body mapping. Body mapping is an art-based embodiment tool designed to engage experiential narratives/experiences that have become attached to specific areas of the body and manifest as muscle tension, unexplained pain, and emotional turmoil. In the session we identify points of tension in the body, we honor the body’s work to support past challenges and we use reiki energy healing to support the body’s processing and release of these blockages.

    Zien-Celeste intends for all offerings to be supplementary support for those who are invested in their healing, aim to live a more liberated life and participate in the liberation of the world around them. We hold these intentions because we are certain that you have a unique part to play in the world that can not be replicated or replaced. We need you here whole and free. We are looking forward to supporting your deepest healing discoveries and broadest expansion.